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Michael Scott Christofferson - French Intellectuals Against the Left - 9781571814289 - V9781571814289
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French Intellectuals Against the Left

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In the latter half of the 1970s, the French intellectual Left denounced communism, Marxism, and revolutionary politics through a critique of left-wing totalitarianism that paved the way for today's postmodern, liberal, and moderate republican political options. Contrary to the dominant understanding of the critique of totalitarianism as an abrupt rupture induced by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's The Gulag Archipelago, Christofferson argues that French anti-totalitarianism was the culmination of direct-democratic critiques of communism and revisions of the revolutionary project after 1956. The author's focus on the direct-democratic politics of French intellectuals offers an important alternative to recent histories that seek to explain ... Read more

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Product Details

Publisher
Berghahn Books, Incorporated United States
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2004
Series
Berghahn Monographs in French Studies
Condition
New
Number of Pages
306
Place of Publication
Herndon, United States
ISBN
9781571814289
SKU
V9781571814289
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About Michael Scott Christofferson
Michael Scott Christofferson was educated at Carleton College and Columbia University. He currently is Assistant Professor of History at the Pennsylvania State University, Erie and lives in the Cleveland, Ohio.

Reviews for French Intellectuals Against the Left
“pathbreaking book…Persuasively arguing his overall case through meticulous research and analysis.”  ·  French Politics, Culture, and Society “…an exceptionally fine text – one that could only have been written by an author mercifully free, for whatever reason of the phobias and philias about French intellectual life of previous generations.”  · New Left Review “This book is clearly an ... Read more

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